All new laptops(not sure about desktops) with windows 11 have a quirk in that when trying to do what we do with 3rd party automated broadcast programs like Zara, Salamandra, Play It Live and others that use the computer's sound card for audio. For the computer to recognize the program and play it from a device using the headphones jack the device has to be plugged in first, before you open the program. Not like before where you could start Zara or whatever and it would be playing through the computer speakers and you plug in your processor or what have you and it would just disable the internal speakers and play out the connected device. Now if you do that the playback will go haywire and flip through the playlist like it can't find a path or something. There will be no audio.
You must make sure that in settings it is set to accept audio from other sources. If it screws up you have to exit, plug in your device, then start it again. Also about windows 11. They make it hard on set up to get past having to be on the net and force you to have a Microsoft account and sign in that way. Not like 10 which you could do the set up with Cortana and just bypass that and be a local user without needing a Microsoft account. With Windows 11 you can get past it but they make it hard for you.
I just got a new broadcast computer on sale at Canada Computers and took it to the service dept. and asked them to get me out of Microsoft and let me have a local account and they did better. They just reinstalled Windows 10 for me but still playing back a 3rd party program from the headphone jack I was describing was the same. It's the way the new computers work.